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Western Digital (WD) Elements Portable Hard Drive is a very popular kind of portable hard drive. With big capacity and fast data transfer speed, this portable hard drive is widely used for data storage & transfer. But data loss can happen on any kind of device including WD Elements Portable Hard Drive, of course. There are many reasons behind data loss, but in most cases the data has not been lost permanently. Once you find the right solution, you can completely recover lost files from WD Elements portable hard drive.

Data Loss Scenarios on WD Elements Portable Hard Drive

  • Lose data on WD Elements portable hard drive due to deletion.
  • Format the WD Elements portable hard drive by accident.
  • The WD Elements portable hard drive is infected by virus.
  • File system crashed on WD Elements portable hard drive.
  • Lose data due to improper operations like pulling out WD Elements portable hard drive when it is transfer data with computer.
  • Unexpected power off.

WD Elements External Hard Drive Data Recovery Solution

Data recovery service is not a bad idea when you want to recover lost data. But this kind of solution is very expensive and time-consuming. Moreover, other people will see your recovered files and information. The best solution for recovering lost files from WD Elements portable hard drive is file recovery software.

Powerful file recovery software can let you easily and safely recover lost WD Elements data on your own. With file recovery software, you can conveniently recover lost files from WD Elements portable hard drive by yourself.

DoYourData file recovery software is one of the most powerful data recovery software that can help users recover lost data from hard drive and storage media. It is fully capable of recovering deleted or lost files from WD Elements portable hard drive. It offers both quick scan and deep scan mode to scan your WD Elements portable hard drive to find every recoverable file. Follow the steps to recover your WD Elements device data using DoYourData.

Step 1: Download and install DoYourData on your PC or Mac.

DoYourData offers reliable WD Elements external hard drive data recovery software - Do Your Data Recovery. It is fully compatible with Windows OS and Mac OS. You can run it to recover lost data from WD Elements external hard drive on PC and Mac.

Do Your Data Recovery

  • Recover permanently deleted files from WD Elements desktop drive or portable disk drive.
  • Unformat WD Elements and recover lost data from crashed WD Elements.
  • Export data from inaccessible WD Elements drive to your computer.
  • Deeply scan the WD Elements drive and recover all lost files.

Step 2: Connect your WD Elements portable hard drive to your computer.

Connect WD Elements external hard drive to your computer via USB cable. Do Your Data Recovery will quickly recognize the WD Elements external hard drive, it also can recognize an unrecognized WD Elements external hard drive. Just select the WD Elements external hard drive to start data recovery.

Recover Lost Files from WD Elements Portable Hard Drive

If your WD Elements portable disk drive is not recognized by your PC and Do Your Data Recovery, check these solutions:

Step 3: Select file types you want to recover.

By default, Do Your Data Recovery will recover all types of lost files from your WD Elements external hard drive. You can click File Types to filter file types before it scans your WD Elements external hard drive.

Recover Lost Files from WD Elements Portable Hard Drive

Step 4: Scan your WD Elements portable hard drive.

Just click on Scan button to scan the WD Elements external hard drive. You also can stop or pause the scan process to recover lost files.

Recover Lost Files from WD Elements Portable Hard Drive

Step 5: Preview and recover the files.

After scanning, you can preview all recoverable files. Then select the wanted files and save them. If the quick scan can’t find all lost files in your WD Elements external hard drive, just try advanced recovery mode to find much more lost files.

Recover Lost Files from WD Elements Portable Hard Drive

WD Elements Data Recovery Tips

  • Please don’t write to your WD Elements portable hard drive before you get all files back from it.
  • Please don’t install DoYourData on your WD Elements portable hard drive.
  • Please don’t save the recovered files on your WD Elements portable hard drive before recovering all files.
  • If you can’t find your files after quick scan, just try deep scan mode.

DoYourData can help you easily recover deleted, formatted or lost files from WD Elements portable hard drive including WD Elements 500GB, WD Elements 750GB, WD Elements 1TB, WD Elements 1.5TB, WD Elements 2TB etc. DoYourData also can recover lost data from other kind of devices, such as hard drive, USB drive, Memory card, SD card etc.

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